Confined quarters, rising tensions and no escape: the astronauts were trained for it. I had a desk, a drawer and a long-running feud over a window that pushed me to my limits

Four people have joined the tiny percentage of humans who can say they have come back to Earth with a bump, literally. Welcome home, Artemis II crew: you have much to be proud of after following in the illustrious...

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons

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It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little...

Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump’s proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program

The astronauts on board Artemis II were “almost poets”, Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, declared on Friday, referring to their inspiring words as they swung above the lunar surface.

They were, he said, “ambassadors for humanity” as they became the first humans...

Soon, thanks to the advance of robots, the only reason left to send humans to the moon will be as an ultra-expensive sport

Martin Rees is the astronomer royal and a former president of the Royal Society; Donald Goldsmith is an astrophysicist and science communicator

The 2020s has seen a revival of the “Apollo spirit”. The US and China are seemingly in a race to send humans to the moon by...

The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday night, with all four astronauts in good health. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch of Nasa, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, have just become the first humans to travel to the moon, and...

Four astronauts landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday, concluding a historic 10-day mission around the moon

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Full report: Artemis II crew splashes down in Pacific Ocean, ending record-breaking moon flyby

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San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old suspect after a perimeter gate was set alight.

Relacorilant, typically used to treat Cushing’s syndrome, could improve outcomes in platinum-resistant cases

A drug originally used to treat a rare disease could extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer, according to a clinical trial.

Platinum-resistant ovarian cancer occurs when the disease progresses within six months of starting platinum-based chemotherapy. This...

Follow the latest updates as astronauts prepare for fiery re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere after 10-day mission to fly around the moon

Artemis II crew to end record-setting mission with splashdown

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The splashdown of the Orion capsule will follow a precise timeline through the afternoon and evening on Friday.

Nasa says the scheduled splashdown time of 5.07pm...

Financial experts are keeping a focused eye on the Litecoin price today as it sits near the vital $50 to $52 support level, a decisive moment for this altcoin. Meanwhile, Hyperliquid crypto is staying firm in the mid $30 range, trapped between floor and ceiling prices, leaving the broader market in a very tight spot.  […]

Dr Nigel Fairweather and Philip Clarke on the newly released Nasa photographs showing the far side of the moon

There has been much excitement about the crew of Artemis II seeing the far side of the moon (Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby, 6 April). Let us remember that on 7 October 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 (also known as Lunik 3) photographed the...

The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California

Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonThe songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant

The scope and ambition of this dark musical by Theo Jamieson and Adam Lenson are boundless. A jagged, time- and space-travelling drama about the emotional wreckage of a mutually destructive relationship, it begins with reports of a young...

Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.

Breanna Olson said the tech was able to re-establish the expression and connection her ALS had eroded.

Andy Jassy tells shareholders that long-awaited rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink is ‘on the verge’ of going live

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Amazon has said its long-awaited satellite internet rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink will finally go live in “mid-2026”.

The chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a letter to shareholders that the technology company was “on the verge of launching Amazon...

Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.

The modern Edge is a genuinely good web browser. Microsoft’s heavy-handed tactics are squandering this advantage.